Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week

Sorry coulrophobics, and pretty much anyone creeped out by clowns, but this still from Kate Durbin’s portrayal of “the trickster figure of the clown and white box of the Facebook timeline” in her short film Unfriend Me Now! (2018) is just one of many images also included in the Summer 2019 issue of The Massachusetts Review.

Such an iconic image of summer on the cover of Parhelion #5. This photo by Anne Eastman is one of many featured in her portfolio in this issue. Read her artist’s statement to learn about her approach to photography, which includes evenings dancing as as “Little Miss Funshine” at the Fantasy Bikini Club in LA.

Court Green Summer 2019 made me laugh out loud: images of Elizabeth Taylor are used to link to each writer on the publication’s home page. Other publications commonly use the writers’ photos here, but Court Green’s spin on that is hilarious. Since moving from print to online, this use of themed circles has become their hallmark.